Yes, and those posts always came with the caveat "if they fix the one glaring issue, which is the guard". So many people complained about the guard that I pretty much assumed it would be fixed, as it was the only major problem with the otherwise near perfect design of the regulator.



I'd rather see the guard outright removed than have it sticking out there with no support. A blob of res-c with no metal around it lasts about two minutes of hard use. How do I know this? Because that's how long mine lasted on some simple batoning.